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Innovations in Psychiatry Symposium: Advances in Understanding and Treating Depression, Friday, February 1, 2013, Goldwurm Auditorium
The inaugural Innovations in Psychiatry Symposium will be held in Goldwurm Auditorium at Mount Sinai Medical Center on Friday, February 1, 2013. It is entitled “Advances in Understanding and Treating Depression.” The program features presentations by Mount Sinai experts including Drs. Dennis Charney and Eric Nestler as well as distinguished faculty from other leading institutions — Drs. Maurizio Fava (MGH), Andrew Krystal (Duke) and Carlos Zarate (NIMH). Please save the date. We look forward to seeing you there!
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8:30-8:45 am
Opening remarks: Wayne K. Goodman, MD
8:45-9:30 am
Keynote address: Dennis S. Charney, MD
9:45-11:15 am
Panel 1: Translational research in depression
Moderators: Eric J. Nestler, MD, PhD, Pamela Sklar, MD, PhD, Scott J. Russo, PhD, Vilma Gabbay, MD
11:15-12:00 pm
Presentation: Maurizio Fava, MD
New approaches to the development of
rapidly-acting treatments for mood disorders
12:00-1:00 pm
Lunch
1:00-1:45 pm
Presentation: Andrew D. Krystal, MD
Strategies for optimizing early phase trials of
novel drugs in mood and anxiety disorders
2:00-3:30 pm
Panel 2: Novel treatments for depression
Moderators: Carlos A. Zarate, Jr., MD James Murrough, MD, Dan V. Iosifescu, MD, Wayne K. Goodman, MD
3:30-4:00 pm
Concluding remarks and Q & A:
Charles H. Kellner, MD
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Symposium Faculty
Dennis S. Charney, MD: Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean, MSSM; Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, The MSMC; Professor, Departments of Psychiatry, Neuroscience, and Pharmacology & Systems Therapeutics
Maurizio Fava, MD: Slater Family Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School;
Executive Vice Chair, Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital
Vilma Gabbay, MD: Chief, Pediatric Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program; Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, MSSM
Wayne K. Goodman, MD: Esther and Joseph Klingenstein Professor and Chair of Psychiatry, MSSM
Dan V. Iosifescu, MD: Director of the Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program; Associate Professor, Psychiatry, MSSM
Charles H. Kellner, MD: Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Chief, Division of Geriatric Psychiatry, MSSM
Andrew D. Krystal, MD: Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center
James Murrough, MD: Assistant Professor, Psychiatry; Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program, MSSM
Eric J. Nestler, MD, PhD: Chairman, Fishberg Department of Neuroscience; Director, Friedman Brain Institute;
Nash Family Professor of Neuroscience, MSSM
Scott J. Russo, PhD: Assistant Professor in Neuroscience, MSSM
Pamela Sklar, MD, PhD: Chief, Division of Psychiatric Genomics; Professor of Psychiatry, Neuroscience,Genetics and Genomics Sciences, MSSM
Carlos A. Zarate, Jr., MD: Chief, Experimental Therapeutics & Pathophysiology Branch, Division of Intramural Research Program, National Institute of Mental Health
Organizing Committee
Ahron L. Friedberg, MD: Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, MSSM
Wayne K. Goodman, MD: Esther and Joseph Klingenstein Professor and Chair of Psychiatry, MSSM